Some of you may know, either from personal experience or from my complaints, that Ike is a little bit picky when it comes to eating. Some may recall the Thanksgiving menu issue (yes, that's three separate links). It's not just the food Ike is picky about, it's the presentation as well. In fact, he's offered to draw my mom a diagram on just how to serve his desserts properly...
So, you'll understand now why I gloat when I write this story. Tonight Jake got (Nana's) pumpkin pie for dessert. Because he'd been particularly good today, he got whipped cream and ice cream with it. So after he'd eaten his turkey rolls and his required number of peas (10), he said he was ready for dessert. I offered to get it for him.
He said, "No, I want Daddy to get it for me, but let me tell him something first."
He walked into the computer room and said, "Daddy, I'm ready for my pumpkin pie. I want my pie on a plate, with the whipped cream on top. I want my ice cream in a bowl and I want a fork and a spoon to go with them."
This may not seem significant to many of you, but there are a couple of you (actually, there are probably 5 of you--Mom, Dad, Caitlin, Mary Lou and Jane) who are nodding your heads right now and saying, "Yep, you reap what you sow, Ike."
Heh heh.
Also, I'd like to point out to Jake's future therapist (should s/he ever read this) that I really don't think it's bad for his self-esteem for me to make him clean his room tomorrow if he wants to go to the park with friends on Wednesday. AND I'd like to let that therapist know that when Jake said to Ike that he wished he could trade lives with someone else (because his life is so bad now that he has to clean his room), Ike didn't mean to say, "Who'd want to trade places with you??"
He meant, "Your life is so good, son, that you wouldn't want to trade for someone else's." Really. So however Jake remembers it, his dad really wasn't saying, "Your life sucks." He was just still confused by all the directions for dessert.
Perhaps Jake can draw him a diagram...
So, you'll understand now why I gloat when I write this story. Tonight Jake got (Nana's) pumpkin pie for dessert. Because he'd been particularly good today, he got whipped cream and ice cream with it. So after he'd eaten his turkey rolls and his required number of peas (10), he said he was ready for dessert. I offered to get it for him.
He said, "No, I want Daddy to get it for me, but let me tell him something first."
He walked into the computer room and said, "Daddy, I'm ready for my pumpkin pie. I want my pie on a plate, with the whipped cream on top. I want my ice cream in a bowl and I want a fork and a spoon to go with them."
This may not seem significant to many of you, but there are a couple of you (actually, there are probably 5 of you--Mom, Dad, Caitlin, Mary Lou and Jane) who are nodding your heads right now and saying, "Yep, you reap what you sow, Ike."
Heh heh.
Also, I'd like to point out to Jake's future therapist (should s/he ever read this) that I really don't think it's bad for his self-esteem for me to make him clean his room tomorrow if he wants to go to the park with friends on Wednesday. AND I'd like to let that therapist know that when Jake said to Ike that he wished he could trade lives with someone else (because his life is so bad now that he has to clean his room), Ike didn't mean to say, "Who'd want to trade places with you??"
He meant, "Your life is so good, son, that you wouldn't want to trade for someone else's." Really. So however Jake remembers it, his dad really wasn't saying, "Your life sucks." He was just still confused by all the directions for dessert.
Perhaps Jake can draw him a diagram...
3 Comments:
Is this pick on Ike day?? Ok, from what I hear he totally deserves it about his dessert requests, LOL. Have I mentioned that I find your son totally amusing? I mean really, you could right a book with all this stuff he comes out with.
This was the funniest thing to read!I love it! The whole menu thing and then Ike getting his payback with Jake! LOL You really should write a book! I would deffinatly buy it!
OMG! I am crying from laughing so hard.... I can just hear Jake giving Ike directions for how his dessert should be served. Too too funny!
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